Globetrooper News: Blogs & Stories

Emily, the creator and editor of travel blog Maiden Voyage, is up for a $10,000 dream trip in the Sony Reader $10K Getaway Giveaway. In the past few days, she has maintained her place within the top 40 out of nearly 850 entries. She wasn’t able to afford a honeymoon after her March wedding, so she’s hoping to get enough votes to win and take her dream honeymoon throughout Spain. Please vote for Emily here to help send her on a honeymoon! You can vote once a day, every day through April 26.

I have added a discussion forum to the website so that we all can discuss absolutely ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to do with travel. If you have a question about any up coming travels, need advice on places to see or things to do, want to meet other travelers going to the same places as you, or WHATEVER, this is where to ask, share, and discuss it all. Click here to read more.

Before I left for my big trip, I knew that I wanted to get a bamboo tattoo in Thailand. I first learned about bamboo tattooing after seeing Angelina Jolie’s tribal tattoo done on her shoulder and learned she had visited Thailand to get it. Click here to read more.

The first time I came to India, I heard about a place called Sadhana Farm located just outside of Auroville in the south of India. Sadhana Forest is a vegan farm that welcomes people from all walks of life to live and volunteer in this small community and learn about sustainable living. Click here to read more.

When I knew I was going to Indonesia, I also knew that I wanted to visit Yogyakarta City. I am an art lover and Yogyakarta is renowned as a center of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, ballet, drama, music, poetry, and puppet shows. Click here to read more.

A question that I have often gotten from people is, “what is your favourite country that you’ve been to?” This question may be tough for most because every country is different and comes with its own unique experiences. However, after exploring 18 countries, I have to give my hat off to India. Click here to read more.

Ken is simply one of the best photographers out there working today. As a long-term traveler, I particularly enjoy his travel shots, but his photographic resume covers all grounds. And his HDR shots are about the best examples of that technique I have ever seen. Hope you enjoy his Lucky 13 interview.

I had my first encounter with silent Vipassana meditation this month in Malaysia. The 10 day course was the most challenging but rewarding experience in my five months of travel through India and Southeast Asia. The first three days of meditation were torture, but by the fourth day I felt sensations in my body that I’ve never felt before like tingling and vibrations from head to toe.

There’s been a lot in the news recently about The Huffington Post, it’s founder Arianna Huffington, and AOL, the company that acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million in February this year. Most of the coverage has been pertaining to a group of volunteer bloggers who have filed a class action suit against all three parties, stating that they want to be compensated for the content they’ve contributed freely to The Huffington Post. Read on to hear my thoughts on the issue… http://bit.ly/f3ozpI

There’s been a recent spat of bed bugs lately, particularly in the USA, appearing everywhere from budget hotels, work places, homes, and even an incident reported at a New York Hilton Hotel! So how do we avoid bed bugs, and are there any tips we can implement that work specifically for hostels? Read on to find out more… http://bit.ly/fi4jZS.

We have all stayed in good and bad hostels, but I thought it was finally time for a veteran hostel user to do up a basic guide from our point of view to the hostel owners of the world. Come take a look and add your tips and suggestions.

A Lucky 13 interview of one of the original modern long-term travelers. Rolf’s answers are as unique as his personality and showcase some of the reasons why he’s one of the most popular of the modern travel writers out there today.

There are many myths about traveling to Antarctica, the biggest being price. Most people don’t go to Antarctica and are scared away by the large $10,000 price tags that a cruise to Antarctica can have. I can easily tell you that you don’t have to pay that much cruise to Antarctica. You can find deals for an average price of $3,000.

We’re back in the USA for the final leg of our adventure. After a brutal head-winds-all-the-way flight from Prague to JFK, we jumped on a connector flight up to Boston and then drove out to Provincetown – located on the tip of Cape Cod.

The city that was once the epicenter of the world at the turn of the 21stcentury. People from around the world want to not only visit Buenos Aires, but actually live there. The Paris of the South can easily be compared to the romantic city of Paris. Things are changing however and you may not be able to see it much longer.

Our time in Hawaii is done, and – after a stopover in Seattle – we’re on our way to Prague. We’re halfway through our mindful mileage run and, similarly, about halfway to earning our airline “status” for next year. Things are going well, very well, and we’re having a blast. Mostly.

Whenever we travel to Washington D.C., we remember the first time we visited as a couple. It was 2008. Early summer. Hotter than hell. Flash forward to this week, which finds us visiting D.C. again. We’re here to celebrate International Women’s Day, advocate for the eradication of poverty and fight for the dignity of all people.

Carnival is an experience that I think everyone should have. There are many people that were telling me to be careful and I would have been but it seemed that the entire world was converging for Carnival in Salvador. When there are hoards of people outside at even 5 and 6 in the morning you are much less likely to get jacked.

Seeing 1.5 million bats take flight is an amazing sight. While in Austin, Texas for SXSW (South by Southwest), Midlife Road Trip visited the famed Congress Bridge – home of the largest urban bat colony in the world!

This week we’re taking off for a long string of travel. It all starts in Washington D.C. where we’ll advocate for the world’s poor. Doing things like this helps to keep us in-check and focused on taking a stand for what we believe in.